Trump unchained
17 hours ago , by Richard Lutz
by Richard Lutz
Each day, each morning, we awake to Trump headlines like a vast volcano, a vast eruption of bile and vomit pouring from the radio.
Events happen so fast, are so demented and erratic, that it is hard to not so much comment on them as to even digest them; better minds, better pens seem to have a stronger grip on things.
One voice is from seventy years ago. It still is angry, steel edged, relevant. James Baldwin points to the US’s white supremicist view of the world. He is referring specifically about the Black American experience (which is his own experience) but it can equally apply to the Trump world of politics. He wrote: ‘The idea of white supremacy rests simply on the fact that white men are the creators of civilisation and are therefore civilisation’s guardians and defenders.’
Apply Baldwin’s sweeping vitriol to Trump’s vile tactics over Venezuela, Iran and, I would think very soon, Cuba in the near future. He is out to defend some image, some construct is inserted like a nasty microchip in his brain. And it is eating away at our sense of security and our sense of decency.
And, of course, it’s eating away and making mincemeat of our finances. All you have to do is drive down the road and selflishly take a look at fuel prices for your car and howl: ‘How much to fill my tank?’
In the UK, we’ve all seen the price jump from £1.29per litre to £141pl.(that’s a rise of about 60 cents per US gallon). The price rise will inevitably get steeper week by week as the Gulf crisis worsens, families crushed, homes destroyed, hospitals wrecked in the Mid East.
A planet swamped…
It is being done because Trump has a warped vision. It’s a nightmare that American voters bought into and were deceived into in the 2024 US election. And now the poisonous sewer of Trump’s mental state, filled with hate and pettiness, is swamping this planet.
Prof Femi Oyebode, a British psychiatrist, points out that Trump used the word ‘carnage’ during his first presidential inauguration to describe the state of the US. It was a strange expression to define a prosperous country but Professor Oyebode writes: ‘…the carnage that he saw was a mirror of his inner life…and he would want to project unto the world the chaos and the inner ruination that consumed him.’
He continues: ‘Is it possible not to notice in the rambling soliloquys that the Great Leader is deranged? The skirting boards are misaligned, the torrent of words like badly laid railway tracks askew and off centre?’
He remarks on the March weather. It is spring. And, the doctor reminds us, that means ‘Madness is in the air.’
We take a sharp breathe and await events.
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Tony Fitzpatrick
He has trashed any notion of global security… he has trashed the global economy…he has trashed the USA’s reputation. My inner terror is that I had always assumed most advanced democracies had internal checks and balances that would negate such possibilities….apparently not…!?!
Martin McCrindle
Is it the White House or Arkham Asylum?
Alan Holland
Chavez then Maduro in Venezuela stole elections, poured narcotics into the US and were killing and oppressing any opponents. The UN, no lover of the US, numbers them in thousands. Some 25 percent of the population has fled the country for heavens sake. In addition sanctioned Venezuelan oil was fuelling the economies of our enemies. For enemies they surely are. Prior to sanctions the regime just stole the oil money anyway so don’t blame the US for the emigration. Maduro was a mad dog and his departure is a blessing to Venezuelans. Trump already had the VP on board before he extracted Maduro who had surrounded himself with Cuban mercenaries. Funny that. I wonder why?
Iran simply could not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon. End. Had they succeed it is now abundantly clear that they had the missile to deliver it to Tel Aviv and even London in a blizzard of ICBMs and as we now see the regime will not , nor would have stopped at nothing to kill Israel and cripple the planet to further their disgusting Stone Age, murderous, misogynistic cult.
I’m glad the US have got the guts to take on these people and I’m disgusted by the pusillanimous reaction of this Government and so many smug comfortable lefties in their privileged echo chambers.
Believe me, if we’d continued to sleepwalk into what was coming to prevent a bit of economic hardship and win some extra votes from those whose narrow concerns were 10% on fuel or costly heating, in a decade we’d be facing Armageddon.
Remember A Few Good Men?
“You want answers?”
“I think I’m entitled to them.”
“You want answers?”
“I want the truth!”
“You can’t handle the truth!
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg?
I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury.
Etc.
Right. You can all pile on now!
Angela Cooper
In response:
Much of what you say about Maduro and Iran is true but none of it excuses Trump who acts illegally. He doesn’t consult the Senate or Congress because he doesn’t recognise that the USA is supposed to be a democracy. He blundered into this war without thinking through any of the consequences and it has now become very dangerous for many countries outside the Middle East as well as across the region – and has as a consequence has trashed much of the world’s economy. The only country doing well is Putin’s Russia and that is very bad for Ukraine and Europe.
Becky Fraser
As my mother used to say: Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Barry Franks
Things must look very strange here back from your perch. On the other hand, we’ll get out in big numbers for the ‘No Kings Day’ march this weekend,
IC
During my 23 years as a meteorologist, climate change was a small but important part of my responsibilities. To hear Trump call it a “hoax” is painful.
Ed Burke
Spot on
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